Nhu Xuan Hua, Swan - Archive from the year 2000 [detail], 2017-2022. © Nhu Xuan Hua. Courtesy of the artist and Anne-Laure Buffard, France.

Language is central to how we share and understand our experiences. This conversation explores how artists draw on different forms of creative expression to amplify histories. Here, communication is a relational act shaped by access, memory and care.

Through her photographic practice, Nhu Xuan Hua’s exhibition at Autograph reflects on communication across generations. Her father, who is oral-deaf, communicates in spoken Vietnamese and a self-taught form of French Sign Language he learned after arriving in Paris in the late 1970s. The absence of a shared dialogue within her household profoundly influenced Hua’s artistic practice. With digitally altered archival images, she visualises how memory can fragment and communicate over time.

Hua will be joined by interdisciplinary artist, designer, educator and sign language access advocate Nic Annette Miller. Together, they will consider the ways we can connect with one another beyond speech. Moving past the limitations of spoken language, they explore signs, image, observation, and embodied expression as powerful tools for storytelling.

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